aeronautical

[ air-uh-naw-ti-kuhl, -not-i-kuhl ]

adjective

1. of aeronautics or aeronauts.

Other Words From

• aer·o·nau·ti·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of aeronautical¹

aeronaut + -ical

Example Sentences

Amid the turbulence, one European project is quietly on track, says Bjorn Fehrm who has a background in aeronautical engineering and piloted combat jets for the Swedish Air Force.

From BBC

Gerald Cook, an adjunct professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, is a former commercial pilot and flight operations manager who flew for Spirit from 1999 to 2010.

From Slate

That applied not only to pilots’ reports of objects that seemed to have displayed unusual aeronautical behavior, but a farrago of reports in the press, online, and among committed UFO believers about purportedly secret government programs to collect, examine and even attempt to reverse-engineer technology supposedly retrieved from crashed extraterrestrial UAPs.

From Los Angeles Times

“Those diatoms in that diatomite is what gives rise to the oil in Los Angeles” and the automobile and aeronautical industries, Hendy said.

From Los Angeles Times

Raised in an upper-middle-class home in Redondo Beach, the daughter of an aeronautical engineer, Fromme was kicked out of her house as a teenager and met Manson on Venice Beach in 1967.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• aerial
• floating
• soaring